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New Social News Site for Nonprofits

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You're probably familiar with the concept of social news through sites like StumbleUpon and Digg : users post links to stories, other users rate the posts by voting them up or down. While I have accounts with StumbleUpon and Reddit, I rarely use them. "Oh, a link to a map of legal drinking ages around the world , eh?

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WeAreMedia Live Workshop: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Finish the social media strategy map. Experiment with StumbleUpon. Some tangible first steps that people plan to put into practice are: Listening strategy. Setting up a blog. Use the smart chart to get communications strategy in place first. Refine strategy based on listening first. Set up a Facebook Page.

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Guest Post by Angus Parker: Review and Book Giveaway - The New Community Rules by Tamar Weinberg

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Finally, since I've never really been able to understand StumbleUpon , a social bookmarking service that we use to great effect at WiserEarth, it was a revelation to read the description in the book. If you have any feedback for Tamar about the book, she is collecting it on her blog: [link]. Angus is the Program Director of WiserEarth.

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What metric(s) you select depends on your strategy map, tool selection, and context. This session will use a training game as a conversation starter for participants to begin to identify the most important metric mapped with strategy. He gives a great list of what goes into the map. Think Nielsen Ratings ). What happens?

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SXSW: Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam - Slides, Links, and Poems (long)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream". And the idea, instead of dying was kept alive and continued flying. Till I found myself crying `Wow this is much easier than before -. Doubting social media, `Nevermore.'.

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